Patrick Barnard
Patrick is the Research Director for the Climate Impacts and Coastal Processes Team, which includes overseeing the development and application of the Coastal Storm Modeling System (CoSMoS), coastal monitoring and process-based studies of beaches across California, and research investigating the link between climate variability and coastal hazards across the Pacific Ocean basin.
Dr. Patrick Barnard has been a coastal geologist with the USGS Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center in Santa Cruz since 2003, and is the Research Director of the Climate Impacts and Coastal Processes Team. His research focuses on storm- and climate-related changes to the beaches and estuaries bordering the Pacific Ocean. His research has been published in over 80 peer-reviewed scientific papers, including Nature, and presented over 100 times at scientific conferences and universities. He serves on numerous regional, national and international scientific review panels related to climate change and coastal hazards. He received a BA from Williams College, MS from University of South Florida, and PhD from UC Riverside.
Science and Products
Clusters of community exposure to coastal flooding hazards based on storm and sea level rise scenarios—implications for adaptation networks in the San Francisco Bay region
Coastal knickpoints and the competition between fluvial and wave-driven erosion on rocky coastlines
Climate change-driven cliff and beach evolution at decadal to centennial time scales
Downscaling wind and wavefields for 21st century coastal flood hazard projections in a region of complex terrain
Doubling of coastal flooding frequency within decades due to sea-level rise
Can beaches survive climate change?
A model integrating longshore and cross-shore processes for predicting long-term shoreline response to climate change
Extreme oceanographic forcing and coastal response due to the 2015–2016 El Niño
Controls of multi-modal wave conditions in a complex coastal setting
Interactions of estuarine shoreline infrastructure with multiscale sea level variability
A multimodal wave spectrum-based approach for statistical downscaling of local wave climate
Automatic delineation of seacliff limits using lidar-derived high-resolution DEMs in southern California
Non-USGS Publications**
**Disclaimer: The views expressed in Non-USGS publications are those of the author and do not represent the views of the USGS, Department of the Interior, or the U.S. Government.
Science and Products
Clusters of community exposure to coastal flooding hazards based on storm and sea level rise scenarios—implications for adaptation networks in the San Francisco Bay region
Coastal knickpoints and the competition between fluvial and wave-driven erosion on rocky coastlines
Climate change-driven cliff and beach evolution at decadal to centennial time scales
Downscaling wind and wavefields for 21st century coastal flood hazard projections in a region of complex terrain
Doubling of coastal flooding frequency within decades due to sea-level rise
Can beaches survive climate change?
A model integrating longshore and cross-shore processes for predicting long-term shoreline response to climate change
Extreme oceanographic forcing and coastal response due to the 2015–2016 El Niño
Controls of multi-modal wave conditions in a complex coastal setting
Interactions of estuarine shoreline infrastructure with multiscale sea level variability
A multimodal wave spectrum-based approach for statistical downscaling of local wave climate
Automatic delineation of seacliff limits using lidar-derived high-resolution DEMs in southern California
Non-USGS Publications**
**Disclaimer: The views expressed in Non-USGS publications are those of the author and do not represent the views of the USGS, Department of the Interior, or the U.S. Government.